Columbus Municipal Airport has decided which expenses it plans to have reimbursed with its $69,000 allocation from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
The aviation board approved a pay request to seek CARES reimbursement from the Federal Aviation Administration for the following items:
Gate 1 replacement — $6,590
Fuel farm relocation — $5,900
Round top hangar gutters — $3,980
Round top hangar siding — $7,530
Round top hangar roof — $11,500
Grade and roll runway approach — $10,950
Airfield crack sealing — $5,169.98
Precision Approach Path Indicator replacement — $4,849
Runway paint — $14,225.86
“You were looking to recoup the funds that we had previously spent, so we went through and found the most aviation-related and airfield-related items,” airport director Brian Payne told the board.
The above expenses totaled $70,694.84. Woolpert, Inc engineer John Baer, who presented the pay request, noted that this does exceed the available CARES funds. It was stated in his report that the $69,000 pay request would include “all eligible costs” of the listed items.
According to the FAA’s website, the CARES Act, passed in March, included $10 billion “to be awarded as economic relief to eligible U.S. airports affected by the prevention of, preparation for, and response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
